Fatwas Archive

Question: A man and his divorced wife disputed over which of them should take their child who has become self-sufficient. What is the legal ruling in this?

Question: Is the waiting period (ʿiddah), whether for divorce or for death, a right of the husband or of Allah Most High? And does remaining in a particular place enter into the concept of the waiting period?

Question: A man married a woman, but she fled his house on the second day and flatly refused to return to her husband’s home, and demanded divorce. The husband refused to divorce except on condition that his expenses be returned....

Question: A man divorced his wife after a valid seclusion (khalwah sahihah) without having intercourse, then later took her back (rajʿah). Is that revocation valid?

Question: A man divorced his wife once, and does not know whether that divorce occurred before puberty or after it. Later he disputed with another man over a matter and swore by divorce that that matter had not occurred; it...

Question: Does laghw apply to swearing by divorce and “ḥarām”?

Question: If a man is asked, “Did you divorce your wife?” and he says, “Yes,” not realizing that divorce would occur by that, for he did not intend it nor know it would count, etc.—what then?

Question about a man’s saying, for example: “My wife is divorced—I am not doing such-and-such,” or “You will come to lunch at my place,”and the like?

Question: What is your view regarding the statement of the scholars of the madhhab that if a man says to his wife, “You are divorced three times, interspersed with revocation,” she is thereby divorced three times with no right of...

Question: A man said, “My wife is divorced, and whenever she becomes lawful to me, she is ḥarām.” What is the ruling?